ESA has awarded a contract for the C0 phase of the GALILEO Test User Segment to a consortium led by Septentrio. Under this contract which is worth almost 3 million EURO, the consortium, which is composed of Septentrio, Rockwell Collins France, QinetiQ, Delft University of Technology, Ursa Minor, OMP, Deimos, SkySoft, Sagem and FDC, will start the work on the development of the first Galileo User Receivers.